Clinical Manifestations and Molecular Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus and Murine Typhus, Vietnam, 2015–2017
Nguyen Vu Trung, Le Thi Hoi, Vu Minh Dien, Dang Thi Huong, Tran Mai Hoa, Vu Ngoc Lien, Phan Van Luan, Sonia Odette Lewycka, Marc Choisy, Juliet E. Bryant, Behzad Nadjm, H. Rogier van Doorn, Allen L. Richards
, and Nguyen Van Kinh
Author affiliations: National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam (N.V. Trung, L.T. Hoi, V.M. Dien, D.T. Huong, T.M. Hoa, V.N. Lien, N.V. Kinh); Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi (N.V. Trung, L.T. Hoi, P.V. Luan, N.V. Kinh); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi (S.O. Lewycka, M. Choisy, J.E. Bryant, B. Nadjm, H.R. van Doorn); University of Oxford, UK (S.O. Lewycka, B. Nadjm, H.R. van Doorn); Institute of Research for Development, Marseille, France (M. Choisy); Merieux Foundation, Lyon, France (J.E. Bryant); Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (A.L. Richards); Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (A.L. Richards)
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Figure 1. Enrollment flow, qPCR results, and presence of eschar among enrollees in study of rickettsial patients, Vietnam, March 2015–March 2017. NS1, nonstructural protein 1; qPCR, quantitative PCR; SFG, scrub typhus group; SFG, spotted fever group; STG, scrub typhus group; +, positive; –, negative.
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